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6<br />
– WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2006<br />
SPORTS<br />
Sports Editor: Tony Adame, 468-3518 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Ukiah</strong> <strong>Daily</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
udjsports@pacific.net<br />
LOCAL<br />
CALENDAR<br />
TODAY<br />
PREP BASEBALL<br />
• Rancho Cotate at <strong>Ukiah</strong>, 3:30 p.m.<br />
PREP TENNIS<br />
• Cardinal Newman at <strong>Ukiah</strong>, 3 p.m.<br />
PREP GOLF<br />
• Piner at <strong>Ukiah</strong>, 4 p.m.<br />
THURSDAY, MARCH 23<br />
COLLEGE BASEBALL<br />
• Contra Costa College at Mendocino<br />
College, 2:30 p.m.<br />
COLLEGE SOFTBALL<br />
• Contra Costa College at Mendocino<br />
College, doubleheader, 1 p.m.<br />
PREP SOFTBALL<br />
• Maria Carrillo at <strong>Ukiah</strong>, 4 p.m.<br />
• Potter Valley at Kelseyville, 4 p.m.<br />
-Calendar listings are culled from the most<br />
recent schedules provided by the schools<br />
and organizations in our coverage area.<br />
Please report schedule changes or incorrect<br />
listings to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Daily</strong> <strong>Journal</strong> Sports<br />
TV LISTINGS<br />
TODAY<br />
NBA<br />
Miami at Detroit, 5 p.m. (ESPN)<br />
San Antonio at Denver, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)<br />
COLLEGE BASKETBALL<br />
NIT Tournament Quarterfinal, 4 p.m.<br />
(ESPN2)<br />
NIT Tournament Quarterfinal, 6 p.m.<br />
(ESPN2)<br />
THURSDAY, MARCH 23<br />
NBA<br />
Golden State at Dallas, 7 p.m. (FSN)<br />
COLLEGE BASKETBALL<br />
NCAA Tournament Regional Semifinal, 4 p.m.<br />
(CBS)<br />
NCAA Tournament Regional Semifinal,<br />
6:30 p.m. (CBS)<br />
NIT Tournament Quarterfinal, 9 p.m.<br />
(ESPN2)<br />
NHL<br />
San Jose at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.<br />
GOLF<br />
PGA Players Championship, 9 a.m. (ESPN)<br />
COMMUNITY<br />
DIGEST<br />
Spring break sports<br />
and fitness camp<br />
<strong>for</strong> girls<br />
Is your daughter in second<br />
through eighth grade? Has she<br />
got plans <strong>for</strong> spring break?<br />
Bring her to <strong>Ukiah</strong> High School<br />
<strong>for</strong> the 6th Annual Girl Scouts<br />
Sports and Fitness Camp. Local<br />
female coaches and athletes will<br />
work with the girls on skills in<br />
basketball, softball, volleyball,<br />
swimming, soccer, gymnastics,<br />
dance, and much more.<br />
Camp will be from April 17 - 20,<br />
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM daily. Cost is<br />
$45 per girl, or $35 <strong>for</strong> registered<br />
Girl Scouts, <strong>for</strong> four full days.<br />
Financial assistance is available.<br />
Look <strong>for</strong> flyers in the schools<br />
soon.<br />
For more in<strong>for</strong>mation about this<br />
camp, to request a registration<br />
packet, or to find out about other<br />
Girl Scout activities, please contact<br />
Connie Krantman at 463-<br />
2888 or 800-764-7322.<br />
BMX and Rusty<br />
Bowl meeting<br />
<strong>The</strong> City of <strong>Ukiah</strong> Community<br />
Service Department would like to<br />
announce a meeting <strong>for</strong> local<br />
BMX participants, Rusty Bowl<br />
users, and any other interested<br />
members of the public.<br />
Voting <strong>for</strong> the Board of Directors<br />
will be held at the Rusty Bowl this<br />
Thursday, March 23rd at 6pm.<br />
For more in<strong>for</strong>mation, call 462-<br />
0249.<br />
Entry level clinic <strong>for</strong><br />
soccer referees<br />
<strong>The</strong>re will be an entry level soccer<br />
referre clinic May 15-18, from<br />
6-9 p.m., and May 20 from 9<br />
a.m.-3 p.m. at the Nokomis<br />
School.<br />
For more in<strong>for</strong>mation, call<br />
Friedhelm Engeln at 485-7308.<br />
Final sign-ups <strong>for</strong><br />
<strong>Ukiah</strong> Lions cheer<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Ukiah</strong> Lions final cheerleading<br />
sign-ups <strong>for</strong> the 2006<br />
season will be March 30 from<br />
5:30-7:30 p.m. at Wright Stuff<br />
Pizza.<br />
Ages 7-15 are welcome, and <strong>for</strong><br />
more in<strong>for</strong>mation call Stephanie<br />
at 485-8848, or Nadine at 468-<br />
8411.<br />
Lake Basketball<br />
Club holding tryouts<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lake Basketball Club in<br />
holding sign-ups and tryouts<br />
March 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Big<br />
Valley Rancheria Gymnasium in<br />
Lakeport <strong>for</strong> a spring and summer<br />
traveling AAU teams.<br />
Boys ages 10-17 from Lake<br />
Coutny and <strong>Ukiah</strong> are invited to<br />
attend as either individuals or<br />
teams. <strong>The</strong> top seven or eight<br />
players in each age bracket will<br />
represent the LBC at AAU tournaments<br />
and in local leagues<br />
starting in April.<br />
Sign-up fee is $60 and includes<br />
a $12 AAU card, reversible jersey<br />
and shorts, and equipment and<br />
facilities. For more in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
contact John Richardson at 707-<br />
349-2042, or e-mail at:<br />
Zapcity1@mchsi.com.<br />
Spring break hoops<br />
camp at Pomolita<br />
Open to boys and girls ages 7-<br />
17, a week-long spring basketball<br />
camp will offer players an opportunity<br />
to build a solid foundation<br />
of basketball skills. Each day is<br />
filled with fundamental skills, progression<br />
drills, easy to understand<br />
instruction, as well as<br />
games and fun competitions.<br />
From beginners to advanced<br />
players this camp will be a great<br />
experience.<br />
See DIGEST, Page 7<br />
PREP BASEBALL | MARIA CARRILLO 16, UKIAH 8<br />
Jeremy Pollard/For <strong>The</strong> <strong>Daily</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
Devin Jackson delivers a pitch <strong>for</strong> <strong>Ukiah</strong> Tuesday against Maria Carrillo. <strong>Ukiah</strong><br />
lost, 16-8 in its season opener.<br />
Soggy start<br />
By TONY ADAME<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Daily</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
It’s illogical to think that after missing<br />
almost an entire month of games to start the<br />
season, that either Maria Carrillo or <strong>Ukiah</strong><br />
would be in the sort of game-ready shape that<br />
they should be at this time of the year.<br />
If either team has any more three hour, 41<br />
minute marathons like the two battled through<br />
Tuesday in <strong>Ukiah</strong>, game-ready shape will be<br />
here soon enough.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pumas won Tuesday, 16-8 in a game<br />
marred by the cold, wet weather but featuring<br />
spurts of run scoring by each team.<br />
“We felt like we let them back in and didn’t<br />
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Shanna<br />
Zolman scored 19 points and Candace<br />
Parker had 15, and Tennessee started<br />
fast and led throughout in a 66-53 victory<br />
over George Washington on<br />
Tuesday night.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lady Vols advanced to the<br />
semifinals of the Cleveland Regional<br />
against Rutgers.<br />
Tennessee (30-4) also reached 30<br />
victories <strong>for</strong> the 16th time in Pat<br />
Summitt’s 32 years as coach, and will<br />
play in the regional semis <strong>for</strong> the 25th<br />
straight year.<br />
Parker never attempted a dunk like<br />
the two she pulled off in her historymaking<br />
first round game against<br />
Army, but still showed enough razzledazzle<br />
to get the crowd roaring.<br />
George Washington (23-9) trailed<br />
by double digits almost the whole way<br />
after the Lady Vols’ opened with a 16-<br />
2 burst. After 11 minutes, Zolman had<br />
11 points and Parker had 10, both<br />
exceeding the Colonials’ total, and<br />
Tennessee was up 25-8.<br />
Rutgers 82, TCU 48<br />
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Cappie<br />
keep up the intensity we should have,” said<br />
Maria Carrillo head coach Steve Tagnolli. “But<br />
give <strong>Ukiah</strong> credit, they were down and battled<br />
back to make a game of it.”<br />
Maria Carrillo went ahead 3-0 in the first<br />
inning and added five more runs in the second<br />
inning, four coming off <strong>Ukiah</strong> errors, to push<br />
the lead to 8-0.<br />
<strong>Ukiah</strong> got a run on the board in the bottom<br />
of the third after a Jeff Harpe single scored<br />
Tony Crudo. <strong>The</strong> Pumas answered back in the<br />
fourth inning, pushing the lead to 13-1.<br />
It’s the kind of run support Maria Carrillo<br />
starting pitcher Connor Kojimoto was looking<br />
See START, Page 8<br />
NCAA women’s tourney off and running<br />
Pondexter scored 24 points to lead<br />
Rutgers to a victory over TCU.<br />
Matee Ajavon led four other players<br />
in double figures with 18 points and<br />
also had 13 assists <strong>for</strong> No. 3 seed<br />
Rutgers (27-4).<br />
Rutgers’ win was the 750th <strong>for</strong><br />
coach C. Vivian Stringer in her<br />
1,000th game spanning 34 years at<br />
Cheyney State, Iowa and Rutgers.<br />
Only Pat Summitt of Tennessee and<br />
Texas coach Jody Conradt have more<br />
wins.<br />
Adrianne Ross, Vanessa<br />
Clementino and Ashley Davis scored<br />
10 points apiece to lead TCU (19-12).<br />
<strong>The</strong> 11th-seeded Horned Frogs were<br />
playing their second tournament game<br />
without leading scorer and rebounder<br />
Natasha Lacy, who left the team last<br />
week to attend to an unspecified personal<br />
matter.<br />
Purdue 61, UCLA 54<br />
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) —<br />
Katie Gearlds scored 15 points and<br />
Erin Lawless and Lindsay Wisdom-<br />
Hylton added 14 apiece as Purdue<br />
advanced to the regional semifinals <strong>for</strong><br />
the third time in four years.<br />
Nikki Blue had 18 points and five<br />
assists and Lisa Willis added 15 points<br />
<strong>for</strong> the Bruins.<br />
UCLA took a 53-49 lead on a Lisa<br />
Pluimer basket with 7:21 to go, but the<br />
Bruins didn’t make another basket the<br />
rest of the way. UCLA, ranked in the<br />
top 10 nationally in scoring offense,<br />
tied a season low by shooting 32.3 percent<br />
from the field.<br />
Purdue (26-6) didn’t make a field<br />
goal <strong>for</strong> the last 3:03, but hit six free<br />
throws in the final minute to pull away.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Boilermakers outscored the<br />
Bruins 14-4 from the line.<br />
Purdue will face top-seeded and<br />
top-ranked North Carolina on Sunday.<br />
Albuquerque Regional<br />
Maryland 81, St. John’s 74<br />
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) —<br />
Crystal Langhorne capped a 30-point<br />
ef<strong>for</strong>t with two late inside baskets and<br />
St. John’s went cold from the field as<br />
the second-seeded Terps advanced to<br />
the regional semifinals.<br />
Maryland (30-4), which lost in the<br />
second round the previous two sea-<br />
Eagles tough on<br />
road, improve<br />
to 5-1 in BVC<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Daily</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />
PITTSBURG – Brandi McRae hit her second game-winning<br />
RBI in three games as Mendocino College improved to<br />
5-1 in Bay Valley Conference play Tuesday, sweeping a<br />
road doubleheader against Los Medanos College.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Eagles won the first game, 4-3, in nine innings.<br />
Mendocino won the second game in blowout fashion, 11-0.<br />
“We went out and it was a great battle in that first game,”<br />
said Mendocino head coach Kelvin Chapman. “We were a<br />
little sluggish at the start but we managed to pick it up.”<br />
Mendocino jumped ahead 3-0 in the first game be<strong>for</strong>e<br />
Los Medanos battled back to tie the score in the fifth, but a<br />
McRae single to left field in the top of the ninth inning<br />
scored Jenn Carroll <strong>for</strong> what turned out to be the game winner.<br />
McRae hit a three-run homerun in extra innings of the<br />
Eagles 7-4 win over Cuesta College Sunday.<br />
In the second game, the Eagles dotted 13 hits over five<br />
innings as Los Medanos dropped to 2-3 in BVC play.<br />
Freshman Shylo Rege was the winning pitcher <strong>for</strong><br />
Mendocino in both games, and went 4-<strong>for</strong>-7 at the plate.<br />
Meghan Raddiffe was the losing pitcher in both games <strong>for</strong><br />
Los Medanos.<br />
“Shylo is really playing great right now,” Chapman said.<br />
“We’ll ride her as far as she can take us. She’s on the mound<br />
<strong>for</strong> us at every opportunity.”<br />
Lindsay Ruddick continued her hot hitting with four base<br />
hits in the doubleheader. Ruddick went 8-<strong>for</strong>-15 at the<br />
Fresno City College Tournament last weekend and is batting<br />
almost .400 on the season.<br />
Sadie Poehlmann and Katy Luetke each banged out two<br />
hits in the second game against Los Medanos.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Eagles return to action Thursday, hosting Contra<br />
Costa <strong>for</strong> a doubleheader. Games begin at 1 p.m.<br />
Artest sparkles<br />
in Kings win<br />
over Seattle<br />
<strong>The</strong> Associated Press<br />
SACRAMENTO — Ron Artest scored a season-high 34<br />
points and the Sacramento Kings beat the Seattle<br />
SuperSonics 105-96 Tuesday night <strong>for</strong> their 14th straight<br />
home win.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Kings’ home-winning streak is tied <strong>for</strong> the fourth<br />
longest in franchise history. Since Artest joined the team in<br />
late January, the Kings are 11-0 at home with him in the<br />
lineup and 16-9 overall.<br />
Artest made 10 of 18 shots, hit 11 of 15 free throws and<br />
added eight rebounds and six assists.<br />
After going the first 5 1/2 minutes without a point to open<br />
the fourth quarter and seeing its lead dwindle to one point,<br />
Artest made a jumper at the foul line to ignite an 11-4 run<br />
that put Sacramento ahead 99-91 with 3:24 left.<br />
Mike Bibby made the last of his five 3-pointers to give<br />
the Kings a 105-94 lead with 1:38 remaining. Bibby had 30<br />
points and eight assists.<br />
Kenny Thomas had 11 points and 11 rebounds, while<br />
Bonzi Wells added 10 points and Brad Miller finished with<br />
14 rebounds <strong>for</strong> the Kings, who had lost two straight games.<br />
Ray Allen had 23 points <strong>for</strong> Seattle, which had won three<br />
of its previous four games. Chris Wilcox had 16 points and<br />
19 rebounds, Rashard Lewis scored 15 and Robert Swift<br />
added 13 points.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Kings were coming off a pair of road losses and<br />
needed the victory to solidify their hold on the eighth and<br />
final playoff spot in the Western Conference.<br />
Sacramento used the inside play of Thomas and a 3pointer<br />
at the buzzer by Artest to finish the third quarter<br />
with an 88-82 lead. <strong>The</strong> Kings trailed 60-58 at halftime.<br />
Notes: Sacramento made 19 of 20 free throws in the first<br />
half and finished 23-of-29. ... Seattle guard Earl Watson has<br />
a neck injury and did not make the trip. ... Allen and Lewis<br />
are one of only two pairs of teammates in the NBA to average<br />
20 points or more per game. <strong>The</strong> other two are<br />
Washington’s Gilbert Arenas and Antawn Jamison. ... Kings<br />
rookie Francisco Garcia played in a reserve role after missing<br />
the last nine games with an ankle sprain.<br />
sons, will play defending champion<br />
Baylor in the Albuquerque Regional.<br />
After Barlow hit a free throw to tie<br />
the game at 72-72 with just over 3<br />
minutes left, Maryland took over from<br />
there. Toliver connected with<br />
Langhorne <strong>for</strong> a layup inside. <strong>The</strong>n<br />
Langhorne converted an offensive<br />
rebound to give the Terps a 76-72 lead.<br />
Shay Doron then hit two free<br />
throws. St. John’s (22-8) couldn’t hit<br />
another field goal, getting their final<br />
points on two foul shots by Kia<br />
Wright, and Maryland put the game<br />
away with three more free throws over<br />
the last 8 seconds.<br />
Wright finished with 23 points and<br />
nine assists, while Tara Walker had 17<br />
and Greeba Barlow 16 <strong>for</strong> St. John’s.<br />
Boston College 79, Ohio State 69<br />
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) —<br />
Boston College made Ohio State the<br />
first No. 1 seed to exit the NCAA<br />
women’s tournament.<br />
Kindyll Dorsey set a school record<br />
<strong>for</strong> an NCAA tournament game by hit-<br />
See NCAA, Page 8